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Re: Need more fonts
Date:Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:14:33 +0100
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:08:44 -0700, Dave Kelly wrote: > I have a new computer with a new install of Gimp 2.6. There are fonts > for launages I do not use. How to I get rid of them and where do I find > new fonts to replace them? > > TIA > Dave Need more info on OS and fonts From the header you seem to be using ubuntu 8.04 (on a new machine??) which AFAIK has next-to-none in the way of font management. I have a netbook running this and there does not seem to be anything in the repo's. If you do a search then you find fonts scattered all over the place but the main location is /usr/share/fonts/. there are a couple of useful (but oldish) articles here: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/6428/4/ http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/6431/1/ Installing is easier. There should be in 'home' a (hidden) folder ~/.fonts copy your fonts there or exclusively for gimp ~/.gimp-2.6/fonts One thing to note - the unicode fonts have many different languages all in one package. So you can have Arial(latin) but it also has a section for say, Arial(mongolian). However you should not see these except in perhaps a font viewer. -- rich
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Re: Need more fonts
Date:Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:13:19 +0100
On Sep 14, 5:14=A0am, rich <r...@nohome.com> wrote: > On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:08:44 -0700, Dave Kelly wrote: > > I have a new computer with a new install of Gimp 2.6. =A0There are font= s > > for launages I do not use. =A0How to I get rid of them and where do I f= ind > > new fonts to replace them? > > > TIA > > Dave > > Need more info on OS and fonts > From the header you seem to be using ubuntu 8.04 (on a new machine??) > which AFAIK has next-to-none in the way of font management. I have a > netbook running this and there does not seem to be anything in the repo's= . > > If you do a search then you find fonts scattered all over the place but > the main location is /usr/share/fonts/. > > there are a couple of useful (but oldish) articles here:http://www.linuxp= lanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/6428/4/http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplan= et/tutorials/6431/1/ > > Installing is easier. There should be in 'home' a (hidden) folder ~/.font= s > copy your fonts there > or > exclusively for gimp =A0~/.gimp-2.6/fonts > > One thing to note - the unicode fonts have many different languages all > in one package. So you can have Arial(latin) but it also has a section > for say, Arial(mongolian). However you should not see these except in > perhaps a font viewer. > > -- > rich Thanks for the links, Rich. They are just what I needed. More importantly they told where to put the new fonts. I found another treasure trove of fonts. www.urbanfonts.com T Dave